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FIRE MANAGEMENT PLAN 2008
Lassen-Modoc Unit
protection practices and measures are implemented, providing the
key point of defense from an approaching wildfire or defense
against encroaching wildfires or escaping structure fires. The
perimeter as used in this regulation is the area encompassing the
parcel or parcels proposed for construction and/or development,
excluding the physical structure itself. The area is characterized by
the establishment and maintenance of emergency vehicle access,
emergency water reserves, street names and building identification,
and fuel modification measures.
Development: As defined in section 66418.1 of the California
Government Code.
Director: Director of the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection
or his/her designee.
Driveway: A vehicular access that serves no more than two
buildings, with no more than 3 dwelling units on a single parcel,
and any number of accessory buildings.
Dwelling unit: Any building or portion thereof which contains living
facilities, including provisions for sleeping, eating, cooking and/or
sanitation for not more than one family.
Exception: An alternative to the specified standard requested by the
applicant that may be necessary due to health, safety,
environmental conditions, physical site limitations or other limiting
conditions such as recorded historical sites, that provides mitigation
of the problem.
Fire valve: see hydrant.
Fuel modification area: An area where the volume of flammable
vegetation has been reduced, providing reduced fire intensity and
duration.
Greenbelts: A facility or land-use, designed for a use other than fire
protection, which will slow or resist the spread of a wildfire.
Includes parking lots, irrigated or landscaped areas, golf courses,
parks, playgrounds, maintained vineyards, orchards or annual crops
that do not cure in the field.
Hammerhead/T: A roadway that provides a "T" shaped, three-point
turnaround space for emergency equipment, being no narrower
than the road that serves it.
Hydrant: A valved connection on a water supply/storage system,
having at least one 2 1/2 inch outlet, with male American National
Fire Hose Screw Threads (NH) used to supply fire apparatus and
hoses with water.
Local Jurisdiction: Any county, city/county agency or department,
or any locally authorized district that issues or approves building
permits, use permits, tentative maps or tentative parcel maps, or
has authority to regulate development and construction activity.
Occupancy: The purpose for which a building, or part thereof, is
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